Judith Bearing the Head of Holofernes

Mum’s the word

Signed On & Tool

The Pastor’s Wife Considers Her Fifty-Seventh Birthday

Yellow House

Art

Momentary Landscapes

by Pentti Sammallahti

Reviews

Intense Agitation (on Time to Get Some Things Straight by John Repp; Black Poem by Gary Copeland Lilley; The Making of Collateral Beauty by Mark Yakich; The Invention of Fiction by Rick Bursky;Elegy and Collapse by Patty Paine; Coming to Flood by Sebastian Matthews; Leave Time by Jeff Worley; A House That Falls by Sean Nevin; Daphne and Jim: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Biography in Verse by Laurel Snyder; Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland; Dusk Outside the Braille Press by Paul Hostovsky; One by Diane Kerr; Carmina Detroit by Dawn McDuffie; Fern-Texts by Reginald Gibbons; First Things to Hand by Robert Pinsky; and The Packing House Cantata by William Trowbridge)

No Place Like Home (on The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories by Ann Joslin Williams; You Won’t Remember This: Stories by Kate Blackwell; Thoreau’s Laundry by Ann Harleman; The View From Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro)

by Kathleen Snodgrass

on Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad

Vision and Virtuosity (on Half/Mask by Roger Mitchell; Escaping the House of Certainty by Susan Ludvigson; My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried; Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes; and This Clumsy Living by Bob Hicok)